Liza Porter

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Tucson, AZ

Arizona US

Email:

lizaporter1@aol.com

Website:

www.lizaporter.com

Author's Bio

I try to write the truth about what I know which forces me to find out what I don't know, and then write about that. I want to create beauty out of hardship; music out of cacophony; colors out of black&white thinking.

Writers Retreats:

Djerassi Resident Artists Program

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthology:

Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)

Journals:

Bending Genres

Hotel Amerika

Poetry

Anthology:

What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (University of Texas Press, 2007)

Books:

Del Bac (Finishing Line Press, 2023)

Keep the Singing (Finishing Line Press, 2021)

Red Stain (Finishing Line Press, 2014)

Journals:

2River View

AGNI

Barrow Street

Diner

Gingko Tree Review

Pebble Lake Review

The Chrysalis Reader

The Montserrat Review

Worcester Review

Prizes won:

Finalist, Gabriela Mistral Poetry Prize, “Blue Gloves, Stars,” 2014; Semi-Finalist, Press 53 Award for Poetry, poetry book contest, The story of a body, 2014; Semi-Finalist, Washington Prize (Word Works Press) poetry book contest, The story of a body, 2011; Finalist, Santa Fe Writers Project nonfiction book prize: Down the Tracks, 2013; Honorable Mention, nonfiction, “Labyrinth,” New Millennium Writings 35th Awards, Fall 2013; Honorable Mention, poetry, “Urgent Care,” New Millennium Writings 35th Awards, Fall 2013; Finalist, Masters Workshop in Poetry, Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, 2013; Finalist, “Labyrinth,” hybrid personal essay, Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction, Chattahoochee Review, 2013. 2009 Mary Ann Campau Memorial Fellowship, University of Arizona Poetry Center.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Feminist

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Bethesda, MD

Maryland

Raised in:

California

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Last update: Nov 17, 2023